What is wrong with today's military? I ask the question because there must be something wrong when a commander sends people out to catch somebody who has a proven record of violence and when he is slightly injured decides to prosecute those people. After all, a violent person will often resist with violence and you sent people to raid, using violence, to capture him.

Three Navy SEALS are on trial for giving a terrorist, one Ahmed Hashim Abed who ambushed some Blackwater employees escorting supplies for a catering company a punch in the gut which resulted in a fat lip. Yeah, I don't buy that either but lets just go with it for a second. Imagine the scenario:

Terrorist ambushes Americans operating legally and not only murders them but burns their bodies and hangs those bodies from a bridge as a form of advertising. The U.S. military rightfully decides this man must be caught and dealt with. They send in some of their best operatives to find and capture this leader. They do so. In the process he is ever so slightly hurt.

I don't care how he was hurt, hell, I've given myself a fat lip by running into something in the dark of night. Are we to expect that soldiers in COMBAT make every effort to avoid harming thier enemies? Would it have worked any differently if the SEALS had simply shot him and drug his body back to base for identification. Do these rules apply to U.S. police officers in U.S. communities who apprehend violent criminals?

So tell me, what the hell is happening to the U.S. military? What's wrong with the leadership that permits such a travesty? Are they being directed by the Muslim in Chief? Please. Explain it to me. I don't get it.

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  ¶ posted by Hobie 1:00 PM